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Slave Populations of the British Caribbean, 1807-1834
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This paper gave excellent and thorough treatment of major demographic aspects of British Caribbean slavery from abolition of slave trade to slave emancipation, drawing heavily on extensive date available from slave registration returns for various islands to provide comparative perspective of nature of slave life.Abstract:
This book is a reprint of work that originally appeared in 1984. It gives excellent and thorough treatment of major demographic aspects of British Caribbean slavery from abolition of slave trade to slave emancipation. Draws heavily on extensive date available from slave registration returns for various islands to provide comparative perspective of nature of slave life. It is essential for serious scholars of the region.read more
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Quasheba, mother, queen: Black women's public leadership and political protest in post‐emancipation Jamaica, 1834–65
TL;DR: In this paper, Quasheba, mother, queen: Black women's public leadership and political protest in post-emancipation Jamaica, 1834-65, was discussed.
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Thiefing a Chance: Factory Work, Illicit Labor, and Neoliberal Subjectivities in Trinidad
TL;DR: Prentice as discussed by the authors explores contemporary life in the Signature Fashions garment factory, where workers attempt to exploit gaps in these new labor configurations through illicit and informal uses of the factory, a practice they colloquially refer to as "thiefing a chance".
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Freedom and oppression of slaves in the eighteenth-century caribbean*
TL;DR: The degree to which an island was a slave society depended on the dominance of sugar cane in the island economy, and whether planters were internally well-organized and were powerful in the empire government as discussed by the authors.
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Searching for the Slave Family in Colonial Brazil: A Reconstruction from São Paulo
TL;DR: Santana de Parnaiba (a town in the capitancy of Sao Paulo, Brazil) is studied in this paper, showing that slave families resemble the families of free peasantry in their structure fertility and marriage rates.